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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. Memgraph vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
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Score	3.19
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Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

memgraph.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

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Developer

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hazelcast

Memgraph Ltd

SenX

Initial release

2013

2008

2017

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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